Far more of them think along these lines that we'd like to believe.
]]>Politicsmusterionhttp://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?129698-Another-reminder-of-how-evil-the-Left-really-isWhat Trump Knew...http://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?129689-What-Trump-Knew&goto=newpost
Mon, 21 May 2018 21:38:55 GMTHe knew...
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Last Year That The FBI Was Investigating His Campaign For Illegal Middle Eastern Election Interference.
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Last Year That The FBI Was Investigating His Campaign For Illegal Middle Eastern Election Interference.

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Trump’s distraction games shouldn’t fool anyone as the real story isn’t a “spy” but the fact that Trump was informed last year that the FBI was looking into election interference in his campaign by other countries besides Russia.

Julia Ainsley of NBC News said on MSNBC:

"I was thinking about it, the last time that Rod Rosenstein was called in this that kind of situation is when the president was also angry about him earlier for the fact that Cohen’s offices had been raided. I mean it seems that when the president is angry at anything going on in this investigation, he does one thing first — he tweets about it, then he takes it out on rod Rosenstein. That, of course, is because Rod Rosenstein has purview over Bob Mueller. So when he sees this going into places he doesn’t like, he reacts and takes it out on Rosenstein, someone he had call into his office. He cannot call Mueller into the Oval Office and yell at him.

"One thing he also might be angry about is what you were just talking about, the news over the weekend about the emirates meeting with Donald Trump Jr. During the campaign. This could almost be a distraction for that and he wants to focus on the issue of this informant. One thing that we reported in December, Katy, at NBC news is that Trump knew that the FBI was interested in foreign influence in his campaign. Not just from Russians, but from other countries, as well. He was briefed and warned, is what we were told. So it couldn’t be a huge surprise to him that the FBI would be taking measures to make sure that his campaign was free of foreign influence. There’s really a way to even see this as a protective measure, that they wanted to make sure that it was not Trump himself and that people around him were not working to undermine American interests. So you have a lot of this misplaced anger right now coming from the president. That’s undoubtedly going to be taken out on the deputy attorney general in this meeting today."

Trump’s Outrage Is Fake

Trump has known since last year that the FBI was looking into other countries who might have interfered with the election through the Trump campaign, so his outrage and demands for an investigation are about creating a distraction so that people aren’t talking about Don Jr.’s meeting with an emissary for two Middle Eastern princes who offered to illegally interfere in the 2016 election to help Trump.

Trump can’t survive scrutiny on his own. He is still trying to find something to take the Russia/election interference scandals attention off of him.

Donald Trump knew what was going on last year, so his outrage over “spies” in his campaign is another empty bid to distract the country’s attention away from his potential crimes.

"An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces" — that's how U.S. Sen. William Seward of New York described the rising strife and mounting enmity between the North and South in 1858, three years before the start of the Civil War.

It's also a pretty fair description of the relationship between California and the Trump administration today. In the growing war between blue and red America, this is the battlefield that is and will remain the most active front.

No mystery attends California's status as the GOP's nightmare-***-punching-bag. It is among the most Democratic states in the union; it is second only to Hawaii in the percentage of voters casting ballots for Hillary Clinton in 2016. It is also — again, just behind Hawaii — among the most multiracial of states. Non-Hispanic whites, at just 38% of the population, no longer even constitute a plurality in California. The state's white working class, the core of Trump's base, is, in percentage terms, among the smallest in the nation.

Quite unlike Hawaii, however, California is by far the nation's most populous state. That has allowed it to become a rival power center to Trump's Washington, and it just keeps enacting policies on immigrants, the environment, taxing and spending from which other Democratic states take their lead. It's also opposing the president's diktats in court. As of last week, the New York Times counted 29 lawsuits filed by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra against the federal government, challenging Trump's attempts to restrict voting rights, bar refugees from Muslim countries, build a wall on the Mexican border, remove legal protections for "Dreamers," diminish the tally of immigrants in the Census, penalize sanctuary cities …

The list goes on and on. And it shows that, as in 1858, the California-Trump conflict is rooted in irreconcilable perspectives on the status of certain human beings. Trump has led the Republicans to openly embrace white identity politics (or, less euphemistically, white racism) toward which the GOP has been drifting for decades anyway. This was bound to repel a state as racially diverse as California and a party as racially diverse as the Democrats. (A Pew poll from last month showed that just 59% of Democrats were white, as against 83% of Republicans.) In Trump's Washington, but also in Republican-controlled statehouses around the nation, the governing GOP coalitions feed (and feed on) their rank-and-file's belief that whites are embattled, evangelical Christians particularly so. The way to preserve their values and livelihoods is by suppressing the interests and votes of minority groups.

Limiting minority votes requires shutting off immigration, which in turn requires some fallacious justifications. In the world according to Trump and his supporters — who disproportionately live far from any concentrations of immigrants — those immigrants cause crime. California, a real world with millions of immigrants (documented and not), knows otherwise. It saw the rates of crime undeniably plummet as the number of its immigrants soared.

Racism and xenophobia, then, lie at the heart of this irrepressible conflict, but it has other sources as well. As Ronald Brownstein has noted, "Trump won 13 of the 16 states that produce the most natural gas, 11 of the 15 that produce the most coal, 16 of the 20 that produce the most oil." California, where people moved for the weather only to find smog, has not only led the nation in formulating the strictest air-pollution and auto-emission standards, but has an economy increasingly centered on largely nonpolluting (albeit worryingly monopolistic) high-tech companies. The Trump Administration's first shots in this skirmish were to abandon rules against leaky oil and gas wells. Then it expanded offshore oil drilling. This month the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would roll back the state's auto emission standards, which the Obama administration had adopted nationally.

The auto industry isn't looking forward to years of litigation during which it may have to build parallel fleets of cars — one that meets the emission standards set by California and the 12 other states that adhere to them, and another that adheres to the laxer standards of the Trump administration. That explains why carmakers may yet help broker a deal between Sacramento and Washington.

But on the other California-Trump lawsuits, no third party has enough power to force a compromise anytime soon. And the gap between those who are comfortable in a more egalitarian multi-racial nation and those who insist on preserving the nation's historic white hegemony — chiefly Fox-fed whites in economically abandoned regions — isn't going to close.

Watching the North grow more populous in the years before the Civil War, the South tried furiously to retain its hold on federal power by expanding the number of slave states. Watching today's America grow more racially diverse, more secular, more feminist — in a word, more Californian — Republicans are trying their own version of that move. They are trying furiously to retain power by rigging the census, suppressing voting, preserving gerrymandered districts, and halting immigration. They have a sufficient electoral base in enough states to keep this fight going for a long time. The weight of demographics — assuming we stay a democracy — will eventually defeat them. But until then, the conflict will remain irrepressible.

]]>Politicsannabenedettihttp://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?129688-Present-at-the-Deconstructionhttp://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?129682-quot-Everyone-knew-quot&goto=newpost
Mon, 21 May 2018 10:08:53 GMTVery good article on how the endless train of leftist sex scandals is forcing people to ignore their hypocritical preaching.

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I truly don’t think the Left understands how the relentless drumbeat of sexual scandal looks to Americans outside the progressive bubble. Left-dominated quarters of American life — Hollywood, the media, progressive politics — have been revealed to be havens for the worst sort of ghouls, and each scandal seems to be accompanied by two words that deepen American cynicism and make legions of conservative Americans roll their eyes at the Left’s moral arguments: “Everyone knew.”

Let’s put this in the clearest possible terms: For years, as Hollywood positioned itself as America’s conscience and as the media lauded its commitment to “social justice,” it was harboring, protecting, and indeed promoting truly dreadful human beings as leaders and taste-makers. Progressive politicians who proclaimed support for women’s rights on Twitter were groping women on airplanes or punching them in the bedroom.

All this was happening at the precise time that the dominant argument — particularly against social conservatism — was that “you people are haters and bigots.” It’s difficult to overstate the extent to which conservative Americans have felt scolded and hectored. So how do you expect us to react when it’s revealed that all too many of the self-appointed moralists weren’t just the kind of preachers who’d run off with the secretary, they were the kind of monsters who’d press a button in their office, lock the secretary in the room, and assault her?

And too many of them knew about these things all the while. It all started in earnest with Bill Clinton - the most powerful man on earth - forcing a 22 year old intern to get under the desk, and they covered for him.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/how-metoo-undermines-the-resistance
]]>Politicsmusterionhttp://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?129682-quot-Everyone-knew-quotALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council)http://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?129679-ALEC-(American-Legislative-Exchange-Council)&goto=newpost
Sun, 20 May 2018 17:52:54 GMTGet Your Kids out of the Godless Public Schools
Godless indoctrination zones
Pr 22:6, Is 5:20, Lk 17:2 more (http://vananne.com/serpentdove/Get%20Your%20Kids%20out%20of%20the%20Godless%20Public%20Schools.htm)
School board stunner: There is no ‘biological sex’...Get Your Kids out of the Godless Public Schools

School board stunner: There is no ‘biological sex’
]]>Politicsserpentdovehttp://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?129679-ALEC-(American-Legislative-Exchange-Council)Voter Fraudhttp://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?129678-Voter-Fraud&goto=newpost
Sun, 20 May 2018 15:39:38 GMTAm 8:5 more (http://vananne.com/serpentdove/Voter%20Fraud.htm)
Rush Limbaugh: Democrats Have Done More to Damage Elections Than Vladimir Putin Could in His Dreams!...Am 8:5 more

Controversial armored police vehicle factory expands production to meet demand
]]>Politicsserpentdovehttp://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?129674-Police-StateLeft and Right...http://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?129672-Left-and-Right&goto=newpost
Sat, 19 May 2018 17:52:55 GMT...can go fly a kite.
Many years ago, two people I personally knew were shot down in cold blood in a case of mistaken identity by street gang members, during a war between two rival street gangs.
When I arrived on the scene, some celebrity news person was instructing one of their relatives (a......can go fly a kite.

Many years ago, two people I personally knew were shot down in cold blood in a case of mistaken identity by street gang members, during a war between two rival street gangs.

When I arrived on the scene, some celebrity news person was instructing one of their relatives (a local Ward Captain well-known for how self-serving he was), to walk down a side walk as if keeping his "eye out for a coin someone might have dropped."

A bit later, some "Pastor" showed up who had taken some ill old parishioner's offering but had continued to excuse why he had yet to bring members of his congregation to come visit her.

There he was, the epitome of "concern" - even volunteering to "take up a collection."

Later that evening, there was that celebrity news person on tv, going on about how "so and so walks down the side-walk, his head hanging down in grief" blah, blah, blah.

I vowed that day that from then on, as far as I was concerned, until any member of either some so called Left, or of some so called Right, proves good intent otherwise - each and every time - each can go fly a kite.

Years later, when I first began to study the Scripture, I found that as far as faith, and media, and politicians are concerned, my decision had been a wise balance...

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 6:18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; 6:19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Rom. 5:6-8.
]]>PoliticsDanohhttp://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?129672-Left-and-RightStand for the Second Amendmenthttp://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?129671-Stand-for-the-Second-Amendment&goto=newpost
Sat, 19 May 2018 17:38:55 GMTWe've heard the argument over and over again after every mass shooting. "Guns are the problem," "There's no reason why anyone should have an AR15." You've even heard Christian leaders say, "Christians shouldn't carry guns, they should trust God." Though it is true that we should trust God it is untrue and even dangerous for one individual to tell another if they should or should not carry a firearm for self-defense.

The truth of the matter is that guns have been around ever since this country began and we didn’t see this stuff in the past. So obviously it’s not the guns that are the issue. It’s something else. It’s us, what we now believe. We no longer believe life has value. Whether it is the life of the unborn or those we just politically disagree with. Until we regain respect for life we will see this happen despite the tool. We have to find our values again. Moral people surrounded by guns will do no harm. I am pro-2nd Amendment and I will not apologize for that.